User`s guide

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8.2 Acronis Recovery Expert

Acronis Recovery Expert is an easy-to use tool that lets you recover volumes on a basic MBR disk that

were accidentally deleted or damaged due a hardware or software failure.

In case your volumes are damaged and the machine fails to boot—for example, after a power outage

or a system error—use the bootable version of Acronis Disk Director and run Acronis Recovery

Expert. It will help you to recover boot sectors and partition tables on hard disks and make your

system bootable again.

The Recovery Expert first attempts to recover volumes "as is", i.e. logical volumes will be recovered

as logical and primary as primary respectively. If the primary volume cannot be recovered as is, it will

be recovered as logical. Also, if the logical volume cannot be recovered as is, it will be recovered as

primary.

To run Acronis Recovery Expert

Select Tools > Acronis Recovery Expert from the top menu.

Recovering volumes in automatic mode

The automatic mode is easy to use and requires minimal effort. The program will try to find and

recover all the deleted volumes on all basic disks.

1. In the Recovery mode window, choose Automatic.

2. In the Searching for deleted volumes window, Acronis Recovery Expert scans all the basic disks

for deleted volumes. First, Acronis Recovery Expert checks your disks for unallocated space. If

there is no unallocated space, you will be asked to close the Recovery Expert. If unallocated

space is found, then the Recovery Expert starts searching for traces of deleted volumes.

The Recovery Expert checks the beginning of each side of every cylinder of every disk for boot

sectors. A boot sector is the first sector of a volume that contains information about this volume,

even after its deletion. Once a deleted volume is found, it will be displayed in the volume list. The

search will, however, continue until all the remaining disks are scanned. Only after the search is

completed, the Next button becomes enabled, and you can proceed to the next window.

Note: you cannot select volumes to recover in the automatic mode. Acronis Recovery Expert will recover all

the discovered deleted volumes.

If the search is completed with no result, you will be asked to either perform the search using the

Complete method, or to finish searching and close the application. With the complete method,

the program scans each sector on every hard disk. It is more thorough and may take a long time

to perform. If there are no volumes found with the complete method, you will be asked to close

the Recovery Expert.

3. The Recovered Volumes window displays the volumes to recover as a part of the hard disk

volume structure. Make sure that all the required volumes are properly placed in the hard disk

structure, and then click Next.